Summary
In “Going Wrong, Going Long,” the Numberjacks leap out of the sofa to fix a maths problem all about long and short. A full episode (~14 min) from the BBC CBeebies maths-adventure series — a quick, friendly way to anchor a numeracy warm-up or maths centre.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
We compare length by lining things up, and measure by counting how many units long something is.
- What was long and what was short in the episode?
- How can you tell which of two things is longer?
- What could you use to measure how long something is?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: long, short, longer, shorter, measure, length.
Try it: Find three objects and put them in order from shortest to longest.